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The Flu That Killed 50 Million

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It is 1918 and the end of WWI. Millions have died, and the world is exhausted by war. But soon a new horror is sweeping the world, a terrifying virus that will kill more than fifty million people - the Spanish flu. Using dramatic reconstruction and eyewitness testimony from doctors, soldiers, civilians and politicians, this one-off special brings to life the onslaught of the disease, the horrors of those who lived through it and the efforts of the pioneering scientists desperately looking for the cure. Narrated by Christopher Eccleston, the film also asks whether, a century later, the lessons learnt in 1918 might help us fight a future global flu pandemic.

Directed byAndrew Thompson

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 48m
Language
EN
Released
September 25, 2018

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Christopher Eccleston

Christopher Eccleston

Narrator

Paul Birchard

Paul Birchard

William Welch

Iain Davie

Iain Davie

Ernest Gibson

Jeremy Edwards

Jeremy Edwards

Basil Hood

Kenny Fullwood

Alexander Jamieson

Amy Kennedy

Katherine Garvin

Hannah Macphail

Ada Berry

Isabel McClelland

Mary Dobson

Brian Pettifer

Brian Pettifer

Victor Vaughan

Allan Tall

James Niven

Creative team
Directed by
Andrew Thompson
Written by
Abigail Carr
Produced by
Andrew Thompson

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